TikTok is reportedly planning a total shutdown of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app when the law requiring a ban or sale of the app takes effect on Sunday.
The roughly 170 million US users who try to access the app will be greeted with a pop-up message directing them to a website with details about the ban, according to the Information.
Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
Kind of funny that this kicks in the day before an inauguration.
Not funny, a deliberate decision by the legislature in order to safeguard it from whoever was going to win the election (since it was set before the election).
Conveniently just in time for Trump to blame it on the Democrats even though he started the process during his previous term.
It passed with bipartisan support
“They” say they are banning it over national security concerns I think it’s deeper then that. They can’t have a socialist like platform having an audience. Which in my opinion is why they wanted to force a sell or just ban Tiktok.
I don’t think, that they will go after Rednote if it doesn’t gain popularity the way that Tiktok did.
socialist like platform having an audience. Which in my opinion is why they wanted to force a sell or just ban Tiktok.
This logic doesn’t follow. What does forcing a sale have to do with being “socialist like” ? TikTok has been diluted into a sales platform anyway.
Maybe I should get on tiktok. A social media app with Americans sounds wonderful
There goes my plan to sell jailbroken iPhones to zoomers.
Could you not access with a VPN?
Access what? There is nothing to access.
Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
That’s nice of them. I bet Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t do that.
Pretty sure they’re both required to do that by law. I’ve downloaded all my Facebook data a few times
True, but I doubt they’d put the effort into making it easy for someone to download it in the message.
I don’t know about twitter, but its very easy to download all of your data from Facebook. I did it yesterday in preparation for closing my account. Account->Settings&Privacy->Your Information->Download Your Information.
That is a bit harder than “click here to download” on the front page.
But what do all these TikTok users need to do suddenly? Talk to each other face to face? Doing something useful in live? Help?
You are typing on a computer / phone right now on another social media platform, probably not the time to feel superior.
But the fediverse is better right ;)? They can’t even ban it haha
Social media’s quality and harm lie on a spectrum, it’s not just black and white. Text discussion on a forum is way different from the average TikTok experience.
Books are ruining the youth - 1700s
it’s that damn opera.
I agree, but the OP referenced none of that.
Youre on lemmy, specifically a small community within a small community. Can’t you see the irony?
I did forget to add /s
Na, Instagram and YouTube have short form videos now.
Good we should be more invested in better apps like redNOTE.
I think it’s even better to not use these kind of ‘social media’ apps.
